Veteran oak tree, Fieldgate Lane, Kenilworth
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Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 10 Oct 2023
This massive tree stands in a front garden in Fieldgate Lane, but can be seen from the road. It appears to be the veteran tree recorded in this vicinity in the ancient tree inventory of the Woodland Trust, as a pedunculate oak, Quercus robur, with a girth of 6.4m at a height of 1.5m https://ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk/tree-search/tree?treeid=80214&from=3523&v=2422369&ml=map&z=17&nwLat=52.35465710336496&nwLng=-1.584782015103099&seLat=52.35117739113758&seLng=-1.5803402769744368#/ . For a close up of the bole or trunk, see Image For a photo of this tree leafless from 2012 see Image